Egypt’s parliamentary speaker said he expected political reforms and authorities announced that 1.8 million people had been added back to a food-subsidy program, after small but rare anti-government protests last month.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s time with the tweeter-in-chief wasn’t wasted.

Egypt said on Tuesday it had returned nearly 2 million people to its food subsidy program since February, two days after tweets by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in which he said he was personally following the politically-sensitive matter. Sisi had said in a tweet on Sunday that he understood the…